We can add a Time Control in DataGridview to give an option to user to put only time in any particular cell.

Add Custom control in your project and Inherit it From DataGridViewColumn

Make CalendarCell Class your main class because we will use more than one class in this File

public GridTimeControl(): base()

        {

            base.CellTemplate = new CalendarCell1();

        }

Override CellTemplate property So then we can set Cell in data Grid View.

public override DataGridViewCell CellTemplate

        {

            get

            {

                return base.CellTemplate;

            }

            set

            {

                if (!((value == null)) && !(value.GetType().IsAssignableFrom(typeof(CalendarCell1))))

                {

                    throw new InvalidCastException("Must be a CalendarCell");

                }

                base.CellTemplate = value;

            }

        } 

 

 

public class CalendarCell1 : DataGridViewTextBoxCell

    {

 

        public CalendarCell1()

        {

            this.Style.Format = "hh:mm tt";

        }

        public override void InitializeEditingControl(int rowIndex, object initialFormattedValue, DataGridViewCellStyle dataGridViewCellStyle)

        {

 

            // Set the value of the editing control to the current cell value.

            base.InitializeEditingControl(rowIndex, initialFormattedValue, dataGridViewCellStyle);

 

            CalendarEditingControl1 ctl = (CalendarEditingControl1)DataGridView.EditingControl;

            if (this.RowIndex >= 0)

            {

                if ((!object.ReferenceEquals(this.Value, DBNull.Value)))

                {

                    if (this.Value != null)

                    {

                        if (this.Value != string.Empty)

                        {

                            try

                            {

                                ctl.Value = DateTime.Parse(this.Value.ToString());

                            }

                            catch (Exception ex)

                            {

                            }

                        }

                    }

                }

            }

        }

 

        public override System.Type EditType

        {

            get

            {

                return typeof(CalendarEditingControl1);

            }

        }

 

        public override System.Type ValueType

        {

            get

            {

                return typeof(DateTime);

            }

        }

 

        public override object DefaultNewRowValue

        {

            get

            {

                return DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString();

            }

        }

    } 

 

Inheri Datetime Picker with class CalendarEditingControl

 

class CalendarEditingControl1 : DateTimePicker, IDataGridViewEditingControl

    {

        private DataGridView dataGridViewControl;

        private bool valueIsChanged = false;

        private int rowIndexNum;

 

        public CalendarEditingControl1()

        {

            this.Format = DateTimePickerFormat.Time;

        }

 

        public object EditingControlFormattedValue

        {

            get

            {

                return this.Value.ToShortTimeString();

            }

            set

            {   if (value is string)

                {

                    this.Value = DateTime.Parse(System.Convert.ToString(value));

                }

            }

        }

 

        public object GetEditingControlFormattedValue(DataGridViewDataErrorContexts context)

        {

            return this.Value.ToShortTimeString(); //Return Only Time from DateTime

        }

 

        public void ApplyCellStyleToEditingControl(DataGridViewCellStyle dataGridViewCellStyle)

        {

            this.Font = dataGridViewCellStyle.Font;

            this.ShowUpDown = true;

            this.CalendarForeColor = dataGridViewCellStyle.ForeColor;

            this.CalendarMonthBackground = dataGridViewCellStyle.BackColor;

        }

 

        public int EditingControlRowIndex

        {

            get

            {

                return rowIndexNum;

            }

            set

            {

                rowIndexNum = value;

            }

        }

 

        public bool EditingControlWantsInputKey(Keys key, bool dataGridViewWantsInputKey)

        {

            if (Keys.KeyCode == Keys.Left || Keys.KeyCode == Keys.Up || Keys.KeyCode == Keys.Down || Keys.KeyCode == Keys.Right || Keys.KeyCode == Keys.Home || Keys.KeyCode == Keys.End || Keys.KeyCode == Keys.PageDown || Keys.KeyCode == Keys.PageUp)

            {

                return true;

            }

            else

            {

                return false;

            }

        }

 

        public void PrepareEditingControlForEdit(bool selectAll)

        {

        }

 

        public bool RepositionEditingControlOnValueChange

        {

            get

            {

                return false;

            }

        }

 

        public DataGridView EditingControlDataGridView

        {

            get

            {

                return dataGridViewControl;

            }

            set

            {

                dataGridViewControl = value;

            }

        }

 

        public bool EditingControlValueChanged

        {

            get

            {

                return valueIsChanged;

            }

            set

            {

                valueIsChanged = value;

            }

        }

 

        public Cursor EditingControlCursor

        {

            get

            {

                return base.Cursor;

            }

        }

 

        protected override void OnValueChanged(System.EventArgs eventargs)

        {

            valueIsChanged = true;

            this.EditingControlDataGridView.NotifyCurrentCellDirty(true);

            base.OnValueChanged(eventargs);

        }

 

 

        #region IDataGridViewEditingControl Members

 

 

        Cursor IDataGridViewEditingControl.EditingPanelCursor

        {

           get { return base.Cursor; }//throw new Exception("The method or operation is not implemented."); }

        }

 

        #endregion

    }

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